And I feel like this war with Iran will just accelerate it. Lots of AI investment come from Arab countries, right? The ones who are suffering the damage from the war that Israel started because of their alliances.

Certainly, but hopefully you won’t turn on your PC and have 50 popups and 10 different buttons blinking and getting in the way of each other begging you to try AI.

Also TIC-80.

They’d probably spend resources on that if there was a critical mass of people. The reason they don’t care is that people aren’t on the Fediverse.

Also if there is constant outages as well, it’s not just about Internet connection. The impact is much larger on everything.

Yeah, the definition is (or at least used to be) that a startup doesn’t have a business model yet.

Some other analysis: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/youtube-views-are-down-dont-panic

“One of the things I really love about Wikipedia is it forces you to have measured, emotionless conversations with people you disagree with in the name of trying to construct the accurate narrative,”

Yeah, I think what makes Wikipedia resilient is that you can’t just go there and say something subjective. You need to find the correct way to state the actual fact, even when it can have different interpretations. Cause that way, no group can contest it.

I’d love to play around with something like this, as a programmer myself, but unfortunately the cost is prohibitive in my country.

I don’t know, even people here are already considering it a loss of the only way is through ADB, because it’s not practical for everyday usage. But it’s better than nothing.

I think adb can also work over Wi-Fi, just like Android Studio can connect to the phone and build and install without plugging it.

But I guess those don’t have Google Play or anything Google, they’re more like a limited Android.

This might be another example of over reliance on AI to judge what’s good or not to show users: https://news.clownfishtv.com/p/reddit-asks-did-youtube-break-itself

The current US government is already a meme around the world, it’s not like this makes it look worse than it already is.

It’s for State contracts apparently.

Given enough time, all things come to light. I hope this is something that will be a shameful part of History in years to come.

I’m not writing a paper or essay… so my standards are different.

It actually shouldn’t matter in this case. Wikipedia isn’t a “source” of anything, it simply states facts and backs them with sources (though not always, many articles will have a “missing source” for many paragraphs). It’s also public, so anyone can add things without it being peer reviewed.

So if you actually care about whether some information is correct, you should check what is the source. And if something is wrong you can do your part and change the text to be more neutral or better phrased. Edits that improve pages are almost always gonna stick.

In the end it’s all ant’s work to update/fix the huge number of badly written stuff in there.

You totally misunderstood the comment.

I feel like the problem mentioned is like a drop in the ocean compared to the enshitification of Google as a whole. Google has been almost unusable even if this didn’t happen.

Yeah, countries should realize that brain drain is much more serious issue than is usually portrayed.

But honestly the issues that lead to brain drain are far beyond what one or a few people in power can fix. It’s usually caused by deep societal issues, things that emerge after little dysfunctions snowball all the way to the large system that is the whole country.

For example, I’ve seen articles like this which in my opinion summarize what is the real issue in Brazilian society. But also one could argue this behavior becomes prevalent because society is already dysfunctional and people normalize the current way of thinking. It’s really a chicken and egg problem to solve when you look at the whole country scale.